misinherit
verbEtymology
From mis- + inherit.
- derived from inhereditare
- derived from enheriter
- inherited from enheriten
Definitions
To inherit incorrectly.
- And this incongruence of the inner constitution of man's soul is invincible and universal: his nature is a disordered jumble of misinherited tendencies.
- He confessed at the last that he had betrayed the trust of the dead, and misinherited a fortune .
- This prepared a legacy that the further acquaintance of the seventeenth century could only misinherit because seventeenth-century American settlers concentrated on "developing" the land, not on describing it.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA